Sherman Alexie once said “Don’t live up to your stereotypes.”This means to be yourself and not what others stereotype about you. The quote relates to the novel because Ponyboy got stereotyped by other people but he realizes that being a greaser stands out to him and he shouldn’t care what they think about him. In this novel‚ Hinton explores the theme‚ social status does not define who you are on the inside. Johnny impacted Ponyboy by murdering Bob. In the novel it reads‚” ‘I killed him‚’ he said
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Silence entered the air after I stepped out of my apartment complex. Slamming the door hard‚ I walked out of the building and started strutting down the sidewalk into town. Several arguments left the air after I stepped out into the cold‚ frosty morning of November in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. My parents have been arguing for months now‚ and I can’t take it. I mean‚ they’re good parents and have given me a nice place and all‚ but they always are getting drunk and argue all the time. I’ve tried to leave home
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A fail global warming experiment of the nations with the intention of controlling global warming kills off most life on the planet. Snowpiercer is the name of the very long train that travels around the globe via a continuing –motion engine‚ with the final survivors aboard divided by a class system‚ each car defined the class level of the passengers. With the elites in the front and the poor on the tail. Led by Curtis‚ a small group of the poorest class citizens living at the back of the train are
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Assignment Sheet: The Giver Persuasive Essay Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver describes a society in search of perfection‚ which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling‚ among other things‚ would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings‚ the creators were able to implement Sameness‚ which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.
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Recycling a persuasive essay Recycling is a wonderful thing that we can do‚ recycling can help us breathe better‚ give us job opportunities‚ protect our wildlife and nature‚ and even make money. In this persuasive essay I will convince why it is good to recycle. Our economic system is where we live in‚ it is what we breathe‚ but it is also where garbage lies. Our world is beautiful‚ but it is very dirty and filled with garbage. The garbage we use can go in the ocean and makes the ocean brown and
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as being judged as an individual. Here are some examples of groups and individuals that learned the hard way. In The Outsiders the author‚ S.E. Hinton‚ shows regardless of social class a person should be judged as an individual rather than the group they are associated with. *Everyone seems to be perfect in each others eyes but the whole world is polluted with issues. The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is novel about social classes. The two main classes are the Greasers and Socs. Greasers are knowns as
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S. E. Hinton wrote ‘The Outsiders’ when he was sixteen years old. She did not just write the book‚ but she really felt it and lived it. While the author was writing this book she looked back and realized how important it was to have another life. One day‚ her friend was walking home and a couple of “nice” kids jumped out of a car and just started to beat her friend up because they did not like that he was a greaser. Hinton went home and started writing the story of the boy who was beaten up by rich
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Looking at “The Outsider”‚ it has a narrator in a First Person Point of View‚ and he is often unreliable. The narrator of “The Outsider” often shows his low level of knowledge‚ as stated in the text by H.P. Lovecraft the narrator says “From such books I learned all I know. No teacher urged or guided me‚ and I do not recall hearing any human voice in all those years - not even my own; for although I had read of speech‚ I had never thought to try to speak aloud.” This sentence he states shows us the
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Dallas “Dally” Winston: Social Clique: Greasers Age: 17 Status: Deceased * Reason- Provoked police to shoot him because he got a heater out. Abilities/ Strengths: Street smart‚ knows how to use a variety of different weapons like guns‚ blades‚ etc. Natural born leader; Strong personality; excellent fighter; stereotypical “bad boy”. Tougher‚ colder and meaner than rest of the greasers. His parents were very abusive of him Criminal Past: "The real character of the gang‚" Dally was arrested
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A boy with no parents and in a bad neighborhood with bad influences as friends and is a minor that smokes and his older brother lets him do that and have those friends ‚ which also doesn’t give him a curfew and lets him go to places alone ‚ should be in the system. Ponyboy has an older brother Darry‚ but Darry doesn’t really take care of ponyboy like he should or gives him as much as attention as he should get for a teenager. Ponyboy should be in the system because he is a young boy that has bad
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